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The
landmark Gilens & Page study in 2014, which was the first study anywhere to examine the data to determine scientifically whether or not a given Government is a democracy or instead a dictatorship, studied the U.S. data, and found conclusively that it's a dictatorship.
The U.S. is controlled by its six or seven hundred billionaires (the study identified America's ruling class as only "economic elites and organized groups representing business interests", but the people who own the controlling interest in over 90% of that and hire their lobbyists and fund the careers of the winning politicians are simply America's billionaires, the U.S. oligarchy or "aristocracy"). After that landmark 2014 study, other reports came forth, all adding
further confirmation to its findings.
What is the
result of billionaires-rule?
America has
a higher percentage of its people in prison than any other nation on Earth, and none of America's prisoners are billionaires nor spouse or child of any, except for the very few organized criminals who were
cheating and stealing from other billionaires (and,
since billionaires rule America, that's the only type of crime a billionaire can be successfully prosecuted for perpetrating in America — crimes against other billionaires). The people who control the people who write and enforce the laws don't need to worry about prison. Almost all of America's prisoners are, in fact, poor people, not even middle-class — and virtually none are upper-class. They're born poor, live poor, and die poor.
Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and George W. Bush, have all had their careers
funded by America's billionaires, and that's why these politicians received their respective Party's nominations. Without the billionaires' support, they'd be nothing, just losing politicians.
You get the nomination by representing your Party's billionaires, not by representing its voters. Behind the scenes, even
America's racial caste system is enforced on behalf of both Parties' billionaires, because supremacism is what they all share, regardless of their rhetoric to the contrary, and there is a groupist element to this supremacism. (Every aristocracy is like that — very
groupist.)
Comment: The smoke and mirrors of this horrific event will eventually clear. Meanwhile it is business as usual for the US when it comes to inserting USAID and unasked-for 'diplomatic advice'.
UPDATE: 9/8/2020: Resignations amok and anti-gov protests seem to be the next critical steps in the aftermath of the explosion: UPDATE: 9/8/2020: While expressing sympathy for Lebanese suffering, the US manages to suggest peaceful regime change is in order, offered via the US Embassy in Beirut: Mere opportunism, or was Beirut bombed to produced precisely this impasse?
Update (10 Aug): Lebanese PM Hassan Diabhas officially announced the resignation of his entire government following days of protests over the Beirut port explosion.